A&W

A & W is home of the Burger Family and Canada’s Best Tasting Burger. Serving delicious burgers, frosted mugs of root beer, and handcrafted onion rings since 1956.

In 1956, the first A&W drive-in restaurant in Canada opened on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg. Serving a delicious combination of great-tasting burgers, onion rings and frosted mugs of famous A&W Root Beer®—all from the smiling faces of friendly car hops—A&W proved to be an instant hit. A&W Restaurants quickly multiplied across the nation, flourishing through the late ’50s and ’60s.